Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Baysal Lab
Led by Can Baysal · Horticultural Sciences
What we study
The Baysal Lab studies how to edit plant genes using viruses and other tools to improve crops like citrus. They focus on making gene editing easier and faster, especially for fighting diseases like Huanglongbing.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Plants
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Genome Engineering Platforms for Trait Discovery, Crop Improvement, and Disease Response in Plants
Developing tools to edit plant genes for better traits and disease resistance.
Engineering transgenic citrus with enhanced resistance/tolerance to Huanglongbing (HLB)
Using gene editing to make citrus more resistant to Huanglongbing disease.
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Developing RNA viral vectors for non-integrative, multispecies delivery of full CRISPR-based editing systems
Creating virus-based tools to edit genes in plants without permanent changes.
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Recent papers, explained
- Virus-mediated, heritable gene editing in groundcherry (Physalis grisea)
2026 · Frontiers in Plant Science
Uses a virus to edit genes in groundcherry, a fruit plant.
- BSMV-mediated genome editing exhibits host-specific heritability: germline transmission in barley and somatic edits in Nicotiana benthamiana
2026 · BMC Plant Biology
Tests virus-based gene editing in barley and plants to see if changes last.
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- Rapid and efficient in planta genome editing in sorghum using foxtail mosaic virus‐mediated sgRNA delivery
2024 · The Plant Journal
Tests whether a virus can deliver gene-editing tools to sorghum plants without tissue culture.
- New strategies to advance plant transformation
2024 · Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Reviews new ways to improve plant gene editing for better crops.
- Functional expression of the nitrogenase Fe protein in transgenic rice
2022 · Communications Biology
Creates rice plants expressing a nitrogenase protein to convert air into fertilizer.
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How to reach out
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